Ulcerative Colitis and Sweet’s Syndrome: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A 47-year-old man with a history of ulcerative colitis on prednisone and azathioprine was admitted to the hospital with a four-day history of fever, skin rash, arthralgias and leukocytosis. A skin biopsy demonstrated neutrophilic infiltration of the dermis that was consistent with Sweet's syndrome. He improved after several days with an increase in his prednisone and azathioprine. Sweet's syndrome is a rare cutaneous manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease, with approximately 40 cases reported in the literature. In a previously reported case of a patient with ulcerative colitis-associated Sweet's syndrome who was on azathioprine at the time of the skin eruption, the azathioprine was stopped, raising the possibility of drug-induced Sweet's syndrome. In the present case, the azathioprine was actually increased with complete resolution of the skin manifestations. This would support the theory that immunosuppressive therapy is the mainstay of therapy for this condition. In conclusion, Sweet's syndrome is a neutrophilic dermatosis that is rarely associated with ulcerative colitis. It may occur while on immunosuppressive therapy and responds to an intensification of immunosuppression.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".